Lee Slater Overman

Lee Slater Overman (3 January 1854-12 December 1930) was a US Senator from North Carolina (D) from 4 March 1903 to 12 December 1930, succeeding Jeter Connelly Pritchard and preceding Cameron A. Morrison.

Biography
Lee Slater Overman was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1854, and he became a personal secretary to Governor Zebulon Baird Vance. From 1903 to 1930, Overman served in the US Senate, and, after World War I, he was active in investigating German and Bolshevik propaganda. In 1922, he took part in a filibuster to defeat an anti-lynching bill, arguing that the bill would allow for African-Americans in the American South to commit "the foulest outrages". He died in office in 1930.